Percutaneous aspiration biopsy of nodular lung lesions
Meyer, J.E.; Gandbhir, L.H.; Milner, L.B.; McLaughlin, M.M.
Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery 73(5): 787-791
1977
ISSN/ISBN: 0022-5223 PMID: 850439 Document Number: 113702
Over a 24 month period, 39 patients with nodular lung leasions suspected of being malignant on chest x-ray study underwent transthoracic needle aspiration biopsy. An accuracy rate of nearly 100 per cent was obtained in 34 of the lesions subsequently proved to be malignant. Achieving these results requires very close cooperation between the departments of radiology, cardiology, and cytopathology.